The 2021 Camiño Real has a primary and ripe nose, despite the moderate 12.5% alcohol, but a structured and balanced palate, showcasing the old vines from Amandi, combining orientations, altitudes and soils. It's 80% Mencía and the rest local grapes, Brancellao, Merenzao, Sousón, Caíño… It fermented with some 60% full clusters and the rest uncrushed grapes with 45 days of maceration, and it matured in a combination of 500-liter oak barrels and 5,000-liter oak vats for 10 to 12 months. There's something ethereal about it, medium-bodied with very fine tannins, a constant across vintages, more elegant than powerful. 30,000 bottles. It was bottled in August 2022. 94 Pts - Luis Gutiérrez, The Wine Advocate

Guímaro doesn't stop experimenting; they showed me three new wines this year, and they are testing granite eggs and doing some trials with fortified wines with the help of Niepoort. They have 16 hectares of vineyards and control a further 26 across Ribeira Sacra. They produce around 200,000 bottles, divided in 11 different labels.

I tasted wines mostly from 2021 and 2022. 2021 could be considered a classical vintage; it was harvested between the 13th of September and 10th of October, the dates that were normal 15 or 20 years ago. Yields were good but the weather was challenging, with constant rain and cooler temperatures. The wines have a very fresh profile. 2022 was very warm in other regions, but they consider it very good for them, with the harvest taking place between the 13th of September and third of October. They had enough rain, the weather was not as extreme as in other regions and they achieved wines with a lot of freshness but with more structure than in 2021.